Appeal No. 1997-3130
Application No. 08/483,772
and folder icon 68. Beard explains (column 12, lines 29
through 31) that the document icons may be dropped or released
“onto a file folder icon.” Beard further explains (column 12,
line 65 through column 13, line 2) that “[o]pening of folder
icon 68 will reveal a directory listing objects contained in
the folder either by alphabetical order or chronologically by
version date, any one of which may be opened in the folder or
moved from the folder and placed on desktop 54.”
Based upon the teachings of Beard and Yoneyama, the
examiner concludes (Answer, pages 4 and 5) that “[i]t would
have been further obvious to the person having ordinary skill
in the art to equip an openable file folder as per Yoneyama et
al.’s suggestions with a capability to accept movable page
representations, because this feature of Beard et al.’s more
schematically-illustrated document/folder correlation will
then take on a greater degree of realism as seen by the user,
whom Yoneyama et al. wish to provide with as close as
simulation as possible to working with the actual paper
copies.”
Appellants argue (Brief, page 5) that “[n]either
reference discloses any representation of a stacked
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